Hromec’s art might, at first, seem more like a chemical reaction than a painting. Sweeping paint strokes sputter across each other, colliding and twisting apart again. A mark from what could only have been a circular sander wanders its way into the chaos, eating away layers of paint and revealing a gleaming aluminum canvas underneath.…
The hand expresses the idea of activity, the concept of a regal emblem, an instrument of authority, power and domination. In the languages of the Far East, the hand is associated with actions tied to spiritual reception and the interior experience of a microcosm that escapes spatial and temporal conditioning. Robert Hromec, even before adding…
Executive Director of The Vilcek Foundation New York, 2013 recipient of the MAD Visionaries! Awards, Rick Kinsel, author and producer of “Robert Hromec: New Mixed-Media Paintings on Aluminum Plate” book pays a visit to Robert Hromec’s studio in Bratislava. (January 28, 2014)
Honorary Trustee of The Metropolitam Museum of Art, NY, Vice President and Co Founder of The Vilcek Foundation, Marica Vilcek. (December 10, 2013)
Published by Cantor Art Press, New YorkPublishing Date: November 15, 2013Text by Rick Kinsel, Ivan JančárEdited by Emmy Favilla Over the course of his two-decade career, the Slovak-born artist Robert Hromec (born 1970) has been experimenting with materials and technology to update the form. In his latest mixed-media paintings on aluminum plate, abstract form provides…